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August 20, 2026

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The legal architecture governing software rests on a useful assumption: However sophisticated the technology becomes, somewhere behind it sits a person or company responsible for the consequential decision.

Agentic artificial intelligence, however, is beginning to put distance between those two things.

“Agents don’t just execute decisions. They can make them,”

Anant Raut

, counsel at

Zaiger Linden Roberti & Pepe

Competition Policy International

, a PYMNTS company, in an interview.

As autonomous systems move from generating answers to negotiating terms, purchasing goods and interacting with other autonomous systems, the legal question changes from whether software faithfully executed an instruction to whether the software made a commercially meaningful decision that its user never specifically contemplated.

And the legal question is also becoming centered around who should absorb the loss when that decision goes wrong.

Agentic AI Turns Software Execution Into Decision-Making

Raut pointed to examples of AI systems finding unexpected ways to accomplish assigned objectives, including an agent instructed to secure a speaking opportunity that instead spent roughly $30,000 on a corporate sponsorship. The software achieved an interpretation of the desired outcome, but not necessarily the one its principal intended.

That creates problems for traditional agency law

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